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W. A. PERKINS.

GRATE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-29 1915.

Patented July 15, 1919.

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WILLIAM ARCHER PERKINS, OF RIDG-EWAY, SOUTH CAROLINA;

GRATE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 15, 1919.

Application filed August 29, 1916. Serial N 0. 117,446.

State of South Carolina, have invented certain useful Improvements in Grates, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

The invention relates to grates, and more particularly to the class of fire place grates of an adjustable and knock down type.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a grate of this character wherein the same can be readily adjusted so as to fit different sizes of fire places for use, and also can be readily knocked down for disuse.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a grate of this character wherein it possesses minimum parts which can be readily locked with each other for the setting up of the grate for use, and when said grate is set up, it will eliminate the falling of burnt wood or any part of the fire on to the health of the fire place thereby preventing possible conflagnations resultant therefrom.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a grate of this character wherein the supports of the fire or fuel to be burned are readily separable from the front guard section of said grate, so in the event of the supports wearing out, new ones can be substituted with despatch, thereby increasing the life of the grate.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a grate of this character wherein the fuel supports are readily adjustable and also the front guard section of said grate can be readily removed from the support, so that new parts of the grate can be substituted when the occasion requires.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a grate of this character wherein a rest is adjustably connected with the front guard of the grate to permit the supporting of a cooking utensil for the cooking of food stufls in the grate.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a grate of this character wherein the construction thereof is novel in form, so as to permit the use of the grate in diflerent sizes of fire places, and "also to allow the convenient setting up or knocking down of the grate when the occasion requires.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a grate of this character which is extremely simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and efiicient in its purpose, strong, durable, and inexpensive in manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as willbe herein-after fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1. is a front elevation of a grate constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation partly in seotions.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one of the fuel supports of the grate.

, Fig. 4 is a plan view of the cooking utensil support.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view through the grate.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the grate comprises a front guard section A, fuel supports B, and a cooking utensil support C, which supports are adjustably and detachably connected with the front guard section A in a manner presently described.

The front guard support A comprises a lattice-like frame 10 formed at its lower edge with a pair of legs 11, provided with feet 12, which rest upon the bottom of the fire place or hearth for supporting the front section A, the frame 10 being formed with a series of spaced parallel bars 13. The upper edge of said frame is fluted at 14:, and also provided with rows of openings 15 for giving ornamentality to the section A of the grate.

The bars 13 are formed with upper and lower opposed pairs of notches 16 and 17 respectively for a purpose presently described.

The fuel supports B which are preferably two in number, each comprise a horizontally arranged bar 18, which is formed near its rear end with a depending leg 19, while "frame 10, thereby detachably connecting the fuel supports B withthe fronts-section A of the grate as is clearly shown in Figs. 1,

2 and 5-of the: drawing.

In Figs. 1 and 4 there is shown a cooking utensil support 0 which Y comprises ---a "disk 22 formed with a :shank whichwis provided adjacent the outer end with opposedirecesses; forming locking-ihead 23, and this head is adapted for detachable engagement in the opposed notches 17, between a pa-ir of adjacent bars 18 .of the seriesiir theframe 10 of the front section A of thegrate'for the mounting of the cookingutensil support Cthereon, so that the sameW-ill hold-the cooking vessel within the grate for the cooking of the contentslofthe vessel.

The fuel to be burned in the grate,=which is preferably-log wood, is iplacedupon' the supports B, while the -cooking utensil or vessel is placed upon thesupporb C-fonthe cooking of the contents thereof on the lighting of the fuel. I

It will be obvious that the grate can -be readily adjusted-to fit different sizesof fire v places, and also thatthe: same can 'loe treadily knocked downifor dis-use.

From the foregoing, it is thought that the construction and manner of operation of the grate will be clearly understood, and

" therefore a -m'ore"extended" explanation has itheiredges with notches, so thatthe notches in (adjacent bars are oppositely disposed with respect to eachother, feet by means of which the lattice frameis supportechand a pair of fuel supports-each of which con- "SlStSOf'H, horizontally disposed bar formed near one end with a depending a leg and provided at the other end with a vertically disposed uprightpost, the vertical post-and horizontally disposedwbar of each fuelsupport-beingformed with agpairof locking heads adapted to pass throughthe spaces providedby the opposed notches in the bars of the ilatch' like 1 frame, ,-the locking heads being formed on opposite sides vwith slots in WhlClLtllGzfiLClIlg edges ofthe bars" of the lattice-like frame may engage, whereby the latticelikeiframe may .be supported in upstanding position and the fuel supports heldinaanposition to retain fuel, as herein shown and specified.

, In testimonywhereofiI affiz r my signature.

WILLIAM- ARCHER, PERKINS.

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